Katt Williams: Patriot or Prick?

If you're unfamiliar with the ongoing Katt Williams saga, allow us to get you up to speed...

For starters, let's just clarify who Katt Williams is: he's not Eddie Griffin. He's a D+(maybe C-)-list celebrity comedian. He's the type of celebrity you may know exists, you realize he's famous, but you're not sure why. In other words, there's a good chance you've never heard of him. If that's the case, feel free to have a look at his Wikipedia page here.

Last month, Williams went on an anti-Hispanic tirade during a performance in Phoenix, which you can see by click here (spoiler alert: he tells a Hispanic guy to go back to Mexico, "nigga").

Civil rights leaders then went nuts, particularly Valley leader Jarrett Maupin, who immediately called on Williams to apologize under threat of a boycott of all things Katt Williams.

Then, it appeared, Williams caved -- through his publicist, he issued the following statement:

"My remarks were not to be offensive. I want to apologize if my comedy
act was taken out of context. I sincerely appreciate my fans within the
Mexican community and would never intentionally go out of my way to
offend them."

Maupin accepted the apology on behalf of Phoenix's Hispanic community -- and all was well.

Then Williams threw a curve ball: with the incident basically behind him, Williams
went on CNN and recanted his apology, pegging the initial apology on
publicists who don't speak on his behalf.

"They put out a DVD called Katt Williams: Nine Lives while I was in jail without my permission," Williams explains to CNN, suggesting his handlers don't necessarily speak for him.

Now, Maupin has recanted his acceptance of Williams's faux-apology -- and the boycott's back on.

Williams explains away his comments during his performance as an act of patriotism --
he says the heckler he told to go back to Mexico started the heckling
with something along the lines of "fuck America." Williams says he was just
defending the country's honor.